Fortuna e Tragédia – de Aristóteles para o cinema

Abstract

There are different ways of learning, thinking about and getting in contact with philosophical questions that emerged from classical antiquity. The cinema has been seen as one of the ways of making us think and learn about questions that life may present us to. One of the aristotelian philosophical questions considers to be an enigma whether the good life was dependent on lucky or on any kind of effort to be a good person. For this article, we start from the intertextuality between cinema and literary theory in Woody Allen’s film Match Point (2005) to think about this aristotelian question. In order for that to be discussed, the idea of success being arbitrary or not proposed by Aristotle is joined here to his studies of tragedy written in Poetics.